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2482 storiesCABTO: Context-Aware Behavior Tree Grounding for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2603.16809v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Behavior Trees (BTs) offer a powerful paradigm for designing modular and reactive robot controllers. BT plan…
Anytime Plug-and-Play Control with Contract-Based Distributed MPC
arXiv:2607.04215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central challenge in many mobile multi-robot applications is that communication topologies are inherently ti…
Current as Touch: Proprioceptive Contact Feedback for Compliant Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2607.03529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compliance is essential for dexterous manipulation, yet existing solutions often rely on external tactile or for…
CoRE-VLA: Towards Scalable and Robust Vision-Language-Action Modeling via Conditional Routing of Experts
arXiv:2607.03693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced generalist robotic manipulation, yet real-world deployment rev…
ROBOCYCLE: Autonomous Dual-Arm Robotic Manipulation and Coordination for Recycling Applications
arXiv:2607.03616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As urban waste volumes escalate and labor shortages intensify, automated waste sorting systems are becoming a ne…
Function-Space Diffusion for Motion Planning
arXiv:2607.02977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based motion planners have demonstrated strong performance in generating diverse and high-quality robo…
Metallic Ultrasound Waveguides as a Distributed Tactile Sensing Platform for Contact Localization, Force Estimation, and Material Class Discrimination
arXiv:2607.02827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing is central to how robotic systems interact with the real world, yet current solutions face a tra…
ECO: Incremental Ego-Centric Octree Update for Point Streams
arXiv:2607.05092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constructing octrees for mobile robots that process continuous point streams in real time poses significant comp…
Invisible Strings: Deriving Puppetry Principles and their Hidden Connections to Robot Behavior Design
arXiv:2607.03289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When designing robots' nonverbal behaviors, many researchers have turned to arts-based insights, such as Disney'…
RoboVista: Evaluating Vision Language Models for Diverse Robot Applications
arXiv:2607.04610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diverse applications for robotics, such as industry and agriculture, require robots to operate across various em…
High-Precision Formation Control for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems via Hierarchical Hybrid Physics-Informed Deep Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.03512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing classical control methods commonly require precise models and struggle to cope with model uncertainties…
Spatial Attention: Adapting Execution Horizons for Diffusion Policies via Observation Sensitivity
arXiv:2607.04739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sampling action chunks via generative models has become a widely adopted methodology for robotic learning from d…
SoftVTBench: A Safety-Aware Visuo-Tactile Benchmark for Physically Constrained Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects
arXiv:2607.04234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deformable object manipulation poses challenges beyond task completion: successful execution must also maintain …
A Graph-Based Reinforcement Learning Approach with Frontier Potential Based Reward for Safe Cluttered Environment Exploration
arXiv:2504.11907v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous exploration of cluttered environments requires efficient exploration strategies that guarantee sa…
XS-VLA: Coupling Coarse-grained Spatial Distillation with Latent Flow Matching for Lightweight Robotic Control
arXiv:2607.04171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong multimodal understanding and spatial grounding, but their…
AnchorDream: Repurposing Video Diffusion for Embodiment-Aware Robot Data Synthesis
arXiv:2512.11797v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The collection of large-scale and diverse robot demonstrations remains a major bottleneck for imitation lear…
Few-Shot Demonstration-Driven Task Coordination and Trajectory Execution for Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2510.15686v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning coordinated behaviors for multi-robot systems from only a few demonstrations is difficult because t…
ADP: Adversarial Dynamics Priors for Physically Grounded Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2607.03454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose Adversarial Dynamics Priors (ADP) for perturbation-resilient humanoid locomotion contr…
GDPR-Aware Trajectory Sharing for ISAC-Assisted Robot Navigation: A Case Study on FID-Constrained Collision Prediction
arXiv:2607.03254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) enables intelligent wireless infrastructure but raises growing regul…
CAC-VLA: Context-Gated Action Conditioning for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2607.04816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a promising paradigm for generalist robot manipulation, where vi…
ACE-Brain-0.5: A Unified Embodied Foundational Model for Physical Agentic AI
arXiv:2607.04426v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied AI is moving from isolated perception or action modules toward physical agents that understand, plan un…
RoboDojo: A Unified Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies
arXiv:2607.04434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist robot manipulation policies have advanced rapidly, yet existing benchmarks remain limited in systemat…
Socially-Aware Autonomous Doorway Traversal and Payload Delivery for Emergency Assistance
arXiv:2607.05315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we focus on the scenario of a robot-assisted emergency evacuation. We consider two capabilities re…
Simple-to-Complex Structured Demonstrations for Vision-Language-Action Learning
arXiv:2607.04591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong capabilities in robotic manipulation by integrating…
CoLA-Flow Policy: Temporally Coherent Imitation Learning via Continuous Latent Action Flow Matching for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2601.23087v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning long-horizon robotic manipulation requires jointly achieving expressive behavior modeling, real-tim…
Beyond Heuristics: A Standardized Real2Sim Pipeline for Physical Human Robot Interaction in Human-in-the-Loop Simulation
arXiv:2607.03017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The aging global population drives demand for assistive robots, yet the safety risks and costs of physical testi…
GaP: A Graph-as-Policy Multi-Agent Self-Learning Harness For Variational Automation Tasks
arXiv:2607.05369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For robots to work reliably in commercial and industrial applications, can recent advances in agentic coding sys…
PRISM: Personalized Robotic Dataset Generation via Image-based Scene and Motion Synthesis
arXiv:2607.04880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large-scale pretrained vision-language-action models have improved robot policy learning, but…
A Reliable Context-Aware and Temporal Planning Framework for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.04689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe operation of autonomous vehicles in dense urban traffic depends on perception and planning that remain reli…
DSWAM: A Dual-System World Action Foundation Model for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2607.04927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) provide a promising alternative to Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies by using vid…